Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retreat to Smyrna last Fall. The Greeks replied with a counter claim for $500,000,000 for damage and loss of life caused by the Nationalist Turks prior to the Spring of 1921. Both declined to pay. The Turks pointed out that it was unusual for the vanquished to demand an indemnity from the victor. The Greeks contended that they were invited by the Allies to administer a mandate in Turkey in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Sevres. They had failed in their attempt to exercise that mandate, but it was for the Allies and not Greece...
...Greece acknowledges responsibility for the damage. Owing to the financial situation Turkey will not demand an indemnity...
...United States Legation at Peking handed the Chinese Foreign Office a demand for $25,000 as an indemnity for the death of Charles Coltman, a United States citizen. Mr. Coltman was shot on December 11, 1922, by Chinese soldiers in an alleged dispute over the export of silver...
...solicitation of the faculty brought out a universal demand for some sort of international control of war and party lines were not evident. No propaganda was used in procuring the names, and the petition was sent to Vice-President Coolidge with the request that it be presented personally to President Harding. The actual work of circulating this petition and drawing it up was executed by the members of the class of one of the advanced courses in French, who have made this year a study of some of the French and other projects for perpetual peace...
Several facts are apparent with relation to the building situation: demand for buildings still outruns the supply, but prices are now so high that the demand may remain potential only and not effective, with the result that a disastrous collapse in the industry may occur. It is better for all parties that this should not happen; on the other hand, the renter must not be forgotten. As the speculative builder loses, the tenant will benefit. Rentals in most parts of the country are now very high, even compared with other prices, and business cannot proceed on a sound foundation until...